Is "día" male or female ?

Question

is dia (spanish for day) male or female (i know it ends in a, but i remember it being male) would it be el dia or la dia?

Hi don, correct spelling is mandatory here. - 00494d19, Oct 30, 2009

Answer 1

It's masculine.

You can just type the word into the dictionary and find out if it is masculine or feminine.

Answer 2

I have a trick for remembering this. LONERS (masculine) and DIONZA (feminine)

• Words that end with an L, O, N, E, R, or S tend to be masculine

• And words that end in -dion or Z, or A tend to be feminine.

**However, words that end in -ma, -pa, or -ta (MAPATA, as I call it) are masculine.. for example: El mapa, El clima, El planeta

***Also, words that are a shortened for of something else are feminine. For example:

• La disco (from la discoteca)

• La foto (from la fotografía)

  Hope that helped (:

Not so sure about nouns ending in "e". Many of these are feminine. La leche, la clase, la llave, many other common ones. - Noetol, Jan 22, 2014

Answer 3

Spanish words that end with -o are masculine, and words that end with -a are feminine ...... Except....

There are a lot of words like día, agua, mano, that are the exceptions to the rule.

Just type into Google "masculine words in Spanish that end in an a" and you will come up with some examples. There are dozens of them.

Remember, "agua" is a feminine noun, but, it hides behind a masculine definite article in its singular form as in "el agua". It wiil still be "las agua" in its plural form. - Moe, Oct 30, 2009